RobSelina
Jedi Warrior
Offline
I'm really getting tired of these little buggers!
I had the MG sitting for a couple of weeks a few months back and a mouse/mice seem to have made their home in my drivers seat /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/nonono.gif After blocking off their entry way into the foam back with steel wool, they moved to the passenger side by the looks of it /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/hammer.gif then back over to the drivers side.
I've tried to tell this little squatter(s) to leave politely but he's not getting it. I've completely vacuumed out the interior a couple of times, I blocked the hole in the firewall I think he was entering/exiting from (a few times when I've started the car he's jumped up into the dash and then I've seen him scurry off into the leaves. There was a torn gromet just to the right of the trans tunnel, probably his doing) and I've placed mothballs under the seats, in his mouse holes and also under the blocking plate where the heater used to reside.
Well, today I have the seats out, suspended over rubermaid containers full of water with floating bait (peanut butter), along with glue traps baited with peanut butter on top of the seats but I wan't getting any visitors.
After not seeing anything I start checking the carpet edges and sure enough, find a little field mouse. For some reason, I decide I'm going to be nice and try to chase him out of the vehicle (now that I'm pretty sure he can't get back in it) Anyway, I have him running back and forth from the passenger side to the drivers side. He forgets every time that the other seat is missing since he jumps the trans tunnel and then looks up for his mouse hole that's not there...all the while ignoring my open doors. After about 5 minutes of this, he wises up and climbes the carpet on the passenger footwell and enters an open heater duct (I didn't realize it was open). UGH! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif
I should have just squashed him like a bug when I first found him since he was hiding under a little lip on the carpet, guess I'm a closet liberal hippy that doesn't want to harm God's creatures /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif
I've turned off the shop lights and placed a baited glue trap on the floor of the passenger side floor. We'll see if I can coax him out. I'll check it again in another hour or so...
Anyway, thanks for hearing me rant /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbsup.gif
Just so this thread isn't completely useless, any advice dealing with this litte bastard?
I had the MG sitting for a couple of weeks a few months back and a mouse/mice seem to have made their home in my drivers seat /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/nonono.gif After blocking off their entry way into the foam back with steel wool, they moved to the passenger side by the looks of it /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/hammer.gif then back over to the drivers side.
I've tried to tell this little squatter(s) to leave politely but he's not getting it. I've completely vacuumed out the interior a couple of times, I blocked the hole in the firewall I think he was entering/exiting from (a few times when I've started the car he's jumped up into the dash and then I've seen him scurry off into the leaves. There was a torn gromet just to the right of the trans tunnel, probably his doing) and I've placed mothballs under the seats, in his mouse holes and also under the blocking plate where the heater used to reside.
Well, today I have the seats out, suspended over rubermaid containers full of water with floating bait (peanut butter), along with glue traps baited with peanut butter on top of the seats but I wan't getting any visitors.
After not seeing anything I start checking the carpet edges and sure enough, find a little field mouse. For some reason, I decide I'm going to be nice and try to chase him out of the vehicle (now that I'm pretty sure he can't get back in it) Anyway, I have him running back and forth from the passenger side to the drivers side. He forgets every time that the other seat is missing since he jumps the trans tunnel and then looks up for his mouse hole that's not there...all the while ignoring my open doors. After about 5 minutes of this, he wises up and climbes the carpet on the passenger footwell and enters an open heater duct (I didn't realize it was open). UGH! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif
I should have just squashed him like a bug when I first found him since he was hiding under a little lip on the carpet, guess I'm a closet liberal hippy that doesn't want to harm God's creatures /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif
I've turned off the shop lights and placed a baited glue trap on the floor of the passenger side floor. We'll see if I can coax him out. I'll check it again in another hour or so...
Anyway, thanks for hearing me rant /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbsup.gif
Just so this thread isn't completely useless, any advice dealing with this litte bastard?